Brother AJ
Smash Lord
A recently taken GALLUP poll determined the following:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/183275/say-animals-rights-people.aspx
The fact that this percentage has reached such a plateau is truly interesting to me, but it also perplexes. Where is the outrage for this issue? Where are these people hiding? Do they lack passion? Do they not understand what this belief would really mean? Do they think this only meant cats and dogs for some reason?!
IMPORTANT: This doesn't mean that animals should be voting or owning guns, but rather they ought to receive rights that they actually have the capacity to benefit from. This topic gets sidetracked far too often with the nonsense notion of animals driving cars or what have you.
Let's think about some of the most basic rights that human beings hold such as the right to life and the right not to be treated as property. If we practiced this belief for animals there would be no conceivable way that things would be able to continue as they are now. Factory Farms, slaughterhouses, medical testing labs, fur farms, rodeos, zoos, etc. would all no longer be acceptable.
This is why this discussion needs to happen. This is why it needs to continue. People need to be introduced to what they truly believe in. The faster we do this the faster that this minority becomes the majority. Get enough public outrage about this issue and it's not going to go away. 32%?! We're sitting on a bomb just waiting to go off.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/183275/say-animals-rights-people.aspx
While women and left leaning individuals lead the way in holding the titular belief, there has been a modest increase among men as well as the right since 2008. This is merely to illustrate that you don't necessarily have to be considered a "radical" to think that animals deserve the same protections and/or rights as people.WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Almost a third of Americans, 32%, believe animals should be given the same rights as people, while 62% say they deserve some protection but can still be used for the benefit of humans. The strong animal rights view is up from 2008 when 25% thought animals' rights should be on par with humans'.
The fact that this percentage has reached such a plateau is truly interesting to me, but it also perplexes. Where is the outrage for this issue? Where are these people hiding? Do they lack passion? Do they not understand what this belief would really mean? Do they think this only meant cats and dogs for some reason?!
IMPORTANT: This doesn't mean that animals should be voting or owning guns, but rather they ought to receive rights that they actually have the capacity to benefit from. This topic gets sidetracked far too often with the nonsense notion of animals driving cars or what have you.
Let's think about some of the most basic rights that human beings hold such as the right to life and the right not to be treated as property. If we practiced this belief for animals there would be no conceivable way that things would be able to continue as they are now. Factory Farms, slaughterhouses, medical testing labs, fur farms, rodeos, zoos, etc. would all no longer be acceptable.
This is why this discussion needs to happen. This is why it needs to continue. People need to be introduced to what they truly believe in. The faster we do this the faster that this minority becomes the majority. Get enough public outrage about this issue and it's not going to go away. 32%?! We're sitting on a bomb just waiting to go off.
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